[yarddog]

I too thought it was a joke at first but apparently not.

[papasmurf]

Oh, this just makes my half century!

it goes hand in hand with...
HR 40 IH, 111th, CONGRESS, 1st Session, H. R. 40.
A Bill to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.